Bicycle.



N0 MODEL.

@Moe-/ V,PATmSmIED 0031.6, 1903.

H. P. SEYMOUR.

BICYGLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. so. 189s.

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UNITED STATES Patented October 6, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE,

HERBERT P. SEYMOUR, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR VTO POPE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A CORPO- RATION OF NEW JERSEY.

BICYCLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 740,703, dated October 6, 1903. Application iiled August 30, 1898. Serial No. iitlt|` (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Beit known that I, HERBERT P. SEYMOUR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hartford, in thecounty of Hartford and State of Connecticut,have invented certain new and useful Improvements Relating to Bicycles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

My invention relates more especiaily to that part of a bicycle appurtenant to the sockethead; and the object of my invention is to provide a direct connection between the front fork and the handle-bar and also a connection that shall prevent a turning movement of one of said parts independent of the other.

To this end my invention consists in the device as a whole, in the combination of the several parts making up the device, and in the details and their combination, as hereinafter described, and more particularly point-ed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure lis a View in side elevation of the front portion of a bi- Fig. 2 is a v cycle embodying my invention. detail view, in longitudinal section, through the socket-head and connected parts. Fig. 3 is a detail View in section through the forkcrown and connected parts. 4

The invention forming the subject-matter of the present application pertains directly The handle-bar f has a postg secured thereto in any desired manner, the lower end of this post being directly connected with the front fork d. The post g extends through the socket-head and is provided with suitable bearings, as cones g', cooperating with ballcases a' on the socket-head, balls beinglocated in the ball-race between these parts in the usual manner.

The post g has a tapered opening h extendtending lengthwise therein, this opening being threaded at h' for the reception of a tapered pin 't'. The walls of the post g are cut through into the central opening, and the lower end of the 'post is threaded for the reception of a nut la. The post g is inserted in the socket-head in the proper position to secure the desired contact of the bearing-snrfaces and the nutk employed to hold the parts in this position. The tapered pin ft' is then turned into the socket, expanding the Walls of the post g to hold the connected parts in position.

It isa common practice in the art to provide a frictional connection between the handle-bars and the forkthat is, the parts are so clamped that one may be turned independent of the other when a required amount of -poweris applied, the construction of the parts so that it is impossible to turn the handle-bar independent of the fork. In the form of connection herein shown the post gis made of irregular crosssection formed to tit a correspondin g socket in the fork-crown d'. By the direct connection between the handle-bar and the fork a less number of parts are employed than in prior constructions, and the connection enables a handle-bar post to be materially shortened, owing to the absence of a connection or clamping device between the upper center tube and the handle-bars'. 'The form of connection between the fork audits immediate support lessons the danger from breaking of the parts at this pointaJ result I adapted to t the threaded ehd of the post vliable Where the fork is united toits support underneath the fork-crown, and a tapered Io as by means of braziug. threaded plug adapted to fit an opening of I claim as my inventioncorresponding shape in the handle-bar fpost. A handle-bar, a post rigidly secured at one HERBERT P. SEYMOUR.

end thereto, a fork having a crown with an Witnesses:

opening to receive the post and arranged to HARRI'S E. HART,-

prevent relative rotation of said parte, a nut W. C. LANG. 

